Some United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers were teleworking, some riot gear was locked in a bus or shattered upon impact after being improperly stored, and only a couple hundred of the 1,879 sworn officers were inside the Capitol Building, despite intelligence showing the protests might get heated on January 6 th , 2021. Even…
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Topline Covid-19 cases in the United States are skyrocketing as winter sets in, with some of the most highly vaccinated states—including four of the top five most vaccinated—fighting to contain the country’s worst outbreaks, prompting officials to reinstate restrictions and ramp up booster efforts to ease the burden on struggling hospitals. Key Facts Of the…
Harvard grad and former pro hockey player Kyle Clark’s startup Beta is on the verge of bringing workhorse battery-powered cargo planes to America’s skies that can take off and land like helicopters. W hen he played minor league hockey in the early 2000s, Kyle Clark says his teammates would spend the long bus rides talking…
Topline School districts and law enforcement agencies across the country are preparing for violence in schools Friday based on threats said to have been spread on the social media platform TikTok, though authorities say there are no apparent credible threats and TikTok says it’s seen no evidence of the threats on its platform. Key Facts…
Updated Dec 16, 2021, 10:55am EST Topline McDonald’s has settled a lawsuit against fired former CEO Steve Easterbrook, recouping equity and cash in his severance payment valued at $105 million, it said in a statement Thursday. Key Facts Easterbrook would not have received the severance payment had he been “truthful” about his misconduct, according to…
Updated Dec 16, 2021, 11:29am EST Topline Former First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday announced she plans to start selling artwork as non-fungible tokens, becoming the latest high-profile figure aiming to cash in on the NFT craze through an effort that she claims “embodies my passion for the arts.” Key Facts Her first NFT, called…
2021 HAS brought mixed blessings for business. American tech giants thrived while Chinese ones suffered (chart 1). Chip firms couldn’t keep up with soaring demand (chart 2), helping snarl up supply chains. Wall Street rainmakers have been working overtime (chart 3). Yet even many of them have toiled from home (chart 4...
YOU HAVE to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. When the founder of Facebook announced in October that he was changing the name of the social-media network’s parent company to Meta Platforms in order to help create an alternative digital reality known as the metaverse, he was mercilessly mocked...
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